If we had an “utterly awesome” tag here on SlashGear, you can bet I’d be using it for this. Pocket Lucho has a history of making incredible miniature arcade cabinets, and his latest fully-operational model is a Neo Geo cabinet complete with illuminated marquee and false coin slot.
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It’s been almost three years since we last mentioned a review of one of GamePark’s GP2X open-source handhelds, and as you might expect the company has made a few changes since then. The latest-gen GP2X Wiz has a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 AMOLED touchscreen, customized Linux OS with 15-second boot and is available for $180; according to Boing Boing Gadgets, if you can stomach the price it’s the best retro-gaming handheld around.
As someone in the market for a new desk chair, I’m now hopelessly in love with these Motoart seats. Reclaimed from authentic, Vietnam-era fighter jets and bombers, the ejector seats are freshly padded, newly upholstered and given aluminum bases with double-wheel casters.
Created by Paul Fryer last year, this “Chess Set for Tesla” takes 32 working vacuum tubes and turns them into chess pieces. Each tube slots into a port on the custom board, lighting up to show their identity via a glowing icon on the top.
A platform can’t really be taken seriously until it runs Doom, and so we’re glad to report that Palm’s webOS has graduated with (almost) flying colors. Software tinkerer Sargun has managed to port the classic game to the Palm Pre, and it carries across “most of the functionality” of the original onto the new smartphone.
To do so, Sargun used the open-source version of Doom, PRDoom, which uses SDL for its rendering backend. That meant he had to rework the game to use webOS’ DirectFB graphics library, something which sounds difficult but which Sargun describes as “actually fairly trivial”.
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If you’re a lover of older games, then you’ll love this new Pocket Retro Game Emulator from ThinkGeek. This gaming device is completely portable and lets you relive the glory days of NES and Sega Genesis in style.
It looks like Myst was just the start of iconic games being ported to the iPhone and iPod touch. A video apparently demonstrating Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 being played on the iPhone has hit YouTube, and while the game might be nine years old from its original launch, it looks pretty darned impressive on the Apple handset.
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People like gaming, and people like music – how about mixing that up? We’re not talking about anything so boringly sensible as Guitar Hero or Rock Band; no, we want classic Super Mario Bros controlled by clapping, strumming and singing. That’s exactly what artists and tinkerers Marc Sciglimpaglia and Phoenix Toews came up with.
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From a mockup to a mockery, here’s one of the more blatant gaming rip-offs we’ve seen in recent months. Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Sony PSP, this PXP-900 may borrow the styling but it doesn’t bother with the titles: instead, it plays retro gaming ROMs.
Ben Heck has been at it again, this time taking a Commodore 64 and transforming it into a laptop that “looked exactly like a computer from the early 80’s, yet in a new form.” As well as fully-functional C64 hardware, the laptop has a 15-inch screen, original keyboard and even a separate sub-screen for memory status.
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